ReviewCurrent sleep medicine reports2021
Sounding It Out: Auditory Stimulation and Overnight Memory Processing.
Review in Current sleep medicine reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.
- Memory consolidation during sleep: a facilitator of new learning?Neuropsychologia · 2026Review
- Modulating sleep: slow oscillation and spindle stimulation effects on physiology and memory.NPJ science of learning · 2026Article
- Differences in sleep spindles and polysomnography in humans: a meta-analysis on the influence of age, sex, and cognitive ability.Frontiers in sleep · 2026Review
- Does overnight memory consolidation support next-day learning?Cognition · 2025Article
- Sleep State Influences Early Sound Encoding at Cortical But Not Subcortical Levels.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Neurophysiological effects of targeting sleep spindles with closed-loop auditory stimulation.Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society · 2025Article
- Slow oscillation-sleep spindle coupling is associated with fear extinction retention in trauma-exposed individuals.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
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- Acoustically evoked K-complexes together with sleep spindles boost verbal declarative memory consolidation in healthy adults.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- How do the sleep features that characterise depression impact memory?Emerging topics in life sciences · 2023Review
- The hearing hippocampus.Progress in neurobiology · 2022Review
- The Portiloop: A deep learning-based open science tool for closed-loop brain stimulation.PloS one · 2022Article
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Abstract
purpose of reviewAuditory stimulation is a technique that can enhance neural oscillations linked to overnight memory consolidation. In this review, we evaluate the impacts of auditory stimulation on the neural oscillations of sleep and associated memory processes in a variety of populations. RECENT
findingsCortical EEG recordings of slow-wave sleep (SWS) are characterised by two cardinal oscillations: slow oscillations (SOs) and sleep spindles. Auditory stimulation delivered in SWS enhances SOs and phase-coupled spindle activity in healthy children and adults, children with ADHD, adults with mild cognitive impairment and patients with major depression. Under certain conditions, auditory stimulation bolsters the benefits of SWS for memory consolidation, although further work is required to fully understand the factors affecting stimulation-related memory gains. Recent work has turned to rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, demonstrating that auditory stimulation can be used to manipulate REM sleep theta oscillations. SUMMARY: Auditory stimulation enhances oscillations linked to overnight memory processing and shows promise as a technique for enhancing the memory benefits of sleep.
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